Brutha Field, there are also white artists who are dead as well. But there are great artists in the movie Lincoln, which you and PC need to see in order to get a feel for the history of our country.

Don't be a Jamaican ignoramus. Go see Lincoln.Why, brother, must you make 'art' a racial issue? There are many great white artists that are just as great as Marley.

You make us look bad-- and please spare me the "who is 'us'?" bit. It's people like you and PC who are ruining an American national Thanksgiving with your racist inuendos. You unlearned fools need to go see Lincoln.

One hundred years ago liberalism was based on telling uncomfortable truths; today it's based on outrageous reality-denial.

Field is a voice of obfuscation and misdirection.

10:08 PM----------------------------You are so right. I don't even know why I waste my time on this blog, except to keep brother Field's blog going. Otherwise, I just wouldn't bother. There are too many PC's and PilotX trolls on this blog. Heck, PC has been kicked off so many blogs I have lost count. His racism and arrogance is inhumane. Of course, Field honors jackasses. Why must we be so desperate as Negroes for other ignorant Negroes? It's a shame but it explains why we are where we are today...in last place.

Brother Field, I will be in Cherry Hill, NJ next month. Why don't you meet me for lunch at the mall?

Brother FN.I too do not get this high holiday(just Sunday family dinner in the middle of the week.)Just got to love the "me" folks of capitalism. My turkey is bigger then your bird and i got black Friday as proof.Number eleven:"WE WON". That would "be" Asian 75%,Single Women 60+%,POC 87+% and everyone that said that`s my poll line for CHANGE. Are you saying that Ms.Field is a "10"...well got to get out the lights for the second part of "Family Time". Enjoy the weekend .....

there are no libs on this commie blog only parasite negroes living off whitey.why don't you ignore the 700,000 lay offs in november.don,t worry they will always have a job for an unqualified negro at the door.

PilotX said... Maybe us libs should move to conservoworld with its "unskewed" polls and candidates with magic underwear. Yeah, that's the reality I'm looking for.--------------

Granted that "conservoworld" has an intellectual incongruity in its accommodation of an evangelical wing that wants to use the power of the state to outlaw abortion, on balance it is far and away more reality-based and committed to personal freedom than modern liberalism.

The reality that you are looking for:

Liberalism teaches that gender and race are social constructs, then makes gender and race the primary determinants of individual identity.

Liberalism seeks to achieve a post-racial utopia of common humanity by obsessively focusing on racial indentities and dividing society into groups based on those identities.

Liberalism holds equality up as the greatest good of all and then enacts statutes that create protected classes with unequal treatment before the law.

Liberal economics assures us we can spend our way out of debt, that paying people to be unproductive will make them more productive, that making energy much more expensive will make us richer, and that importing millions of more workers will make unemployment go down.

Liberalism believes that all groups should have exactly equal outcomes in all endeavors, except that the predominance of some groups in some areas (e.g. the NBA or the Post Office) is not a problem, where as the predominance of other groups in other areas (e.g. Tenured Physics faculty postions and Navy Seals) is.

Liberalism demands the forfeiture of all other individual freedoms for the promise of complete freedom in sexual matters.

Liberal utopia will be a country where you can marry your nephew, abort a "fetus" up to age five, have the government supply your pot, have your societal status determined at birth, and where the ability to be a lifelong parasite will be a "right", but where you can't buy a 20 ounce Coke.

Race is certainly a social construct invented retroactively as a justification for slavery. But gender? No, you are either born with dangly bits, or you ain't.

**"Liberalism seeks to achieve a post-racial utopia of common humanity by obsessively focusing on racial indentities and dividing society into groups based on those identities."

It was racism that was used as a method of dividing groups into identities not antiracists. Before the 14th and 15th c. the only way that society was divided was by religion. Clearly, you cannot have a post-racial society until the iniquities of racism have been dealt with.

**"Liberal economics assures us we can spend our way out of debt, that paying people to be unproductive will make them more productive, that making energy much more expensive will make us richer, and that importing millions of more workers will make unemployment go down."

Liberal economics says none of these things.

Government spending needs to be expanded when times are bad, because where else will growth come from? Economies boom in times of war as the government intervenes in the means of production, so it is in peacetime, when the economy is down the government spends to increase production. Debts need to be paid off eventually (though it should be pointed out here that the vast majority of your national debt is money you owe yourselves), but the time to reduce the deficit is when times are good, not bad. If you take care of unemployment, the deficit will take care of itself. Cutting back government spending when you are already in recession throws your economy into a death spiral.

Unemployed people are paid to be productive in the future. By and large they are unproductive through economic forces beyond their control. Leaving them without food, shelter or medical treatment leads to death, and death is an extremely unproductive state to be in.

Making carbon-sourced energy more expensive will indeed make you richer eventually, because it focuses your mind on finding alternatives. There is a finite amount of carbon sources, as every day passes these grow ever scarcer. As something becomes scarcer it becomes more expensive - that my friend is basic capitalism.

Immigration is good for the country that the immigrant left, and that (s)he arrives in. Keynes wrote a book on the subject, look it up. Immigrants wouldn't come to a country if there wasn't work for them to do.

Depends how you define tolerance. There's a difference between being intolerant of someone because of their skin colour, their sexuality, the way they dress or comb their hair, and being intolerant of things they say and do.

**"Liberalism demands the forfeiture of all other individual freedoms for the promise of complete freedom in sexual matters."

Nonsense. (IT would be kind of cool if it did though ;-)

**"Liberal utopia will be a country where you can marry your nephew, abort a "fetus" up to age five, have the government supply your pot, have your societal status determined at birth, and where the ability to be a lifelong parasite will be a "right", but where you can't buy a 20 ounce Coke."

Wasn't it a conservative who tried to ban coke? I seem to recall...

Also having you societal status determined at birth is what Conservatives have been attempting to achieve since Reagan came to power. Since that time, social mobility in the USA has collapsed, America's GINI coefficient is now lower than Russia and Iran's.

Incidentally I live in a country where you can marry your cousin, but nobody sees that as a particularly right or left policy....

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